Academic Leadership Team
January 28, 2020
1:00 pm
RH 220
Members Present: Gayle Arries, Tiffany Blackwell, Jackie Blakley, Ahmad Chaudhry, Jenni Creamer, Rick Cothran, Galen DeHay, Mark Dougherty, Mandy Elmore, Adam Ghiloni, Pam Goodman, Tasheka Johnson, Scott Harvey, Glenn Hellenga, Gabe Hollingsworth, Tom Lawrence, Bryan Manuel, Jeremy McCracken, Mary Orem, Sarah Shumpert, Luke VanWingerden
Members Absent: Tim Bowen, Linda Jameison, Chris Marino
Other Attendees:
Length of Meeting: 2 Hours
The minutes of the January 14, 2020 meeting were approved as presented.
Jeremy McCracken is the new Faculty Senate Vice-President. Galen welcomed him to the group.
Catalog
Scott Harvey discussed the catalog and reiterated the timeline and deadline. The catalog training sessions will help with questions, so he encouraged everyone to attend. Edits are due by February 12. The catalog should be ready by April 1.
He noted the following.
- The style guide mostly applies to grammar and narratives.
- If a process, policy, or purpose did not change, do not re-write it. Not liking the voice or style is not a reason to make a change.
- This is not the time to change a program.
Student Success Framework
Galen DeHay presented Student Success – An Evolving Definition, and distributed a copy of the presentation. The presentation noted the following:
- Goals of the presentation
- Challenges
- Evolution of Student Success Definition
- Community College 1.0 – Focus on Access
- Community College 2.0 – Focus on Access and Completion
- Community College 3.0 – Access and Completion and Post-College Success
- TCTC Definition of Student Success- Completing a meaningful, high quality credential that leads to a family–sustaining wage.
- Four Measures
- Labor Market Outcomes
- Learning
- Equity
- Completion and Transfer w/ Bachelor’s Degree
Cases for Going Beyond Completion - Video Review & Discussion:
How is each person making a case for moving beyond completion and considering post-college outcomes as a definition for student success?
- All had a long-term trajectory
- Inward-looking focus
- Use analytics differently – look beyond completion, but how far? What data do we use to better understand and predict paths?
- Symbiotic relationship with industry
- Relationships w/
- Students
- Business and industry
- 4-year institutions
- Definition is about student success, not the institution’s success.
What role do external partnerships play in achieving this definition of student success?
- Important to align curriculum correctly and provide training for industry or readiness for a 4-year institution.
- Partners must be active participants; not a "convenient" partner
- Establish mutual priorities
- Influencing becomes important
How does this definition of student success relate to improving economic mobility?
- Contribute to the community
- Community, student, family success are key
- Prepared to be life-long learners; can adjust to new industries
What actions can you take to help shift our focus to this definition of student success?
- Be intentional about the most important skills of critical thinking, problem solving, continued learning. Integrate into what we do.
- Use the model as a lens
- Need some metrics – something to evaluate against
- Some data will be very hard to get
- Measures will evolve
- Once we have KPIs, focus will evolve
- Can’t use as one-size fits all
- As we update policies & procedure, consider if changes help the equity of our students.
Learning Literacies
Mary Orem and Som Linthicum discussed learning literacies. Mary gave an overview of the history of the Learning Commons. Som presented the learning literacies and noted the focus on perspectives on what instructors do and what they want students to do. The presentation included the following.
- Review of the Major Themes
- The Challenge – to unite the library and tutoring center
- Learning Commons Mission Statement
- Integrate/Co-habitate
- Blended Approaches
- Critical literacy
- Tutoring and holistic learning
- Balance between struggle and structure for a positive student experience
- Motiving Spirit
- Learn to learn
- Construct meaning from content
- Science of Learning
- Learning Literacy
- Meta-cognative Awareness and Critical Thinking
- Growth mindset
- Durable learning through mental doing
- Active learning
- Integrative learning
- Mapped literacies to skillshops; and one-on-one
- Internal partnerships
- Interdependence of work is so important
Announcements
Tasheka Johnson- Noted that success check points have started.
With no further business, the meeting was adjourned.
Recorded By: Anne Bryan
Next Meeting: Tuesday, February 11 @ 1:00, in RH 220
